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Re: Sensitive/critical bug found?
- From: Andreas Eibach <ae_cygwin at web dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 01:05:25 +0200
- Subject: Re: Sensitive/critical bug found?
cygwin@cygwin.com schrieb am 18.06.05 00:41:39:
> > $ find . -name '*' | xargs grep -i 'threads_got_initialized' > out2.log
> >
> > ATTENTION. out2.log will grow and grow ... and grew more than 2 GB here,
> > until I got a "No space left on device".
>
> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PEBKAC>, and not Cygwin-specific, either.
*grin*. This fits.
> Of
> course grep would look for "threads_got_initialized" in every file in the
> current directory, *including out2.log*! And it'll keep appending the
> results to that same out2.log.
*bangs head*
Arrrrr...and I got unix experience since about 10 years now!
But it's always that simple, ultra-primitive things that cause these sorts of "deadlocks" (which are remotely related to that, I think :))
Many thanks.
$ find . -name '*.[ch]' | xargs grep -i 'threads_got_initialized' > out2.log
"fixed" (laugh) this.
-Andreas
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